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Oops! Florida Sen. Rubio endorses more government?

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Tea party favorite Marco Rubio had one of those did-he-just-say-that moments by jumbling words in his Republican National Convention speech to accidently advocate for bigger government at the expense of liberty.

The Florida senator's flub came in a nationally televised address just before he introduced presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

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Toward the end of the speech, Rubio was setting up the choices in this election. He said the race would determine whether America made the right decisions. Among them was that, in his words, "We chose more government instead of more freedom."

A Rubio spokesman confirmed Friday that the senator mixed up the line and meant to advocate for freedom over government.

The 41-year-old Rubio is considered a rising GOP star and a potential White House contender in the future.

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More government for the Republicans means "more tax breaks for the rich," in addition to the myriad of tax loopholes for the rich already on tax codes! That is how Mitt Romney paid $ 13% in taxes for his $ 300 millions, whereas retirees and the poor pay 15%! ( by poor, I don't mean people on welfare; I mean those above the poverty line and middle class whose tax loopholes are trivial - compare to tax loopholes for the multi-millionaires). That is why billionaire Warren Buffet disclosed that he pays fewer taxes than his "desk secretary!"

Mitt Romney's speech was the cry of the wolf. Would the sheep (the independent voters) be so enthralled to run into his corral? I don't see it, unless, after 4 years of starving at the bottom of the recession pit, the sheep are looking for a Dr. Kevorkian type candidate to take them out of their misery!

Political parties conventions are simply TV glare and a frothy rehash of what has been spat out by candidates since the presidential campaign began. Worse yet, the Republicans were at the party by themselves, except a few couch potatoes that attended the convention on their couches because they are TV omnivores who live by anything that glitters on their screen.

Here is my take on the Republican convention: Most Americans -including myself- didn't watch it! The republican represent the predators of Wall Street and other corporate magnates who defaulted the U.S. economy; who sent 70% of Americans to the poorhouse; who raided the U.S. Treasury to cover their losses, and who now tell the victimized Americans on TV: Vote for us to get you out of the hole! Would American trust their future to someone who has ravaged their lives before? If they do, they deserve their present predicament!

Let's face it. Republicans are for the average Americans the Bernie Madoffs of Wall Street millionaires - as Romney is! Voting for them would be like re-investing with Bernie Madoff! As the adage says: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!"